Deconstruction Archives - Delta Institute

Delta Institute (Delta) has worked within Gary for years—decades even—with dozens of local community partners who are essential to our collaborative efforts’ success. Many of our supporters are familiar with Delta’s efforts to create Steel City Salvage, our deconstruction project that saves reclaimed materials from vacant buildings going to landfill—instead selling them to spur economic development within the City of Gary. We are committed to ensuring that materials from Gary benefit Gary, and that operations remain within the City to provide another route for ongoing economic development.

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Storywood: Utilizing Reclaimed and Unique Wood in Design and Architecture

Delta Institute created the StoryWood Toolkit as a guide for designers to identify, evaluate, and share the most interesting parts of a certain type of wood’s back story, and, more specifically, it will help to align material choices to achieve certifications, such as LEED or Living Building Challenge.

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Demystifying Midwestern Building Material Markets for Reuse and Revenue

Delta Institute’s Demystifying Waste report provides data to the private and public sector to decrease the disposal rate of reusable materials—and save these valuable supplies from landfills—and increase the capacity of local and state governments to adopt policies encouraging building material reuse and recycling with the recognition of local economic benefits.

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St. Louis Demolition and Deconstruction Technical Assistance

Delta Institute is an expert with construction and demolition waste reduction, recycling, reuse, policy and economic development. The City of St. Louis, St. Louis Development Corporation, the Missouri Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority, and Region 7 EPA selected Delta Institute to revise its demolition handbook, develop specifications for deconstruction, train contractors around building material reuse.

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Nonprofit Venture Framework: Rebuilding Exchange (RX)

Delta Institute has long focused on deconstruction and waste reduction as ways to create a more economically vibrant Midwest. This focus led to the creation of the Rebuilding Exchange, a social venture that Delta spun off into it's own separate organization.

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Publications

Toolkit for Using StoryWood

Shenango Reimagined

Economic Benefit Targeting For Development Tool

Economic Benefit Targeting For Development Overview

Resilient Communities Stakeholder Identification

Resilient Communities Stakeholder Assessment

Demystifying Waste: Midwestern Building Material Markets

St. Louis Deconstruction Market Assessment

Deconstruction Go Guide

Coal Redevelopment Roadmap

Coal in the US: Policy Responses to an Industry in Decline

In Transition: Stories from Coal Plant Communities

Community-Based Prioritization of a Brownfield Site Inventory for Redevelopment

Roadmap to Sustainable Materials Management in Cook County (IL)

Municipal Waste Procurement Tools

Coal Economy Communities and Just Transition Planning

Extracting Value Through Deconstruction

Investing in Communities, Redeveloping Brownfields

Brownfields Marketability (and Redevelopment) Scoring Tool

Building Material Reuse Warehouse Feasibility Study for Cook County

Cook County Waste Management: Environmental & Economic Benefits for Chicagoland

Deconstruction and Reuse GO-Guide (2012)

Fisk and Crawford Coal Plant (Chicago) Redevelopment Report

Market Analysis of Construction and Demolition Material Reuse in the Chicago Region

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Steel City Salvage: Deconstruction and Economic Opportunity in Gary

Storywood: Utilizing Reclaimed and Unique Wood in Design and Architecture

Demystifying Midwestern Building Material Markets for Reuse and Revenue

St. Louis Demolition and Deconstruction Technical Assistance

Nonprofit Venture Framework: Rebuilding Exchange (RX)

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